Word: crush
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...differences can be made to look like differences of degree. Suppose that it be admitted that the Allied blockade is illegal in this or that particular. Shall we then simply lie back and say that all of the belligerents are equally culpable because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous man and a thief, because they both desire a neighbor's property...
...discussing the necessary means to be pursued to provide an adequate defense, Mr. Bonaparte said that a defensive army to be of real value must be large enough to crush the first force that could be sent against us, before the next division could reach our shores. This, he estimated, would take at least 30 days. Supposing that about 150,000 men could be brought over at one time we should need an army of at least 250,000 to dispose of the invading force. The function of our navy should be not to overwhelm any opposing force but merely...
...found that wealth was valued here for reasons different from those that prevailed in Europe. There it was regarded as cash to be spent for pleasure. Here it was prized for the power it conferred. Power to do what? To do good or harm? to magnify the possessor and crush obstacles to his will, or to promote the progress of the people? That is the question on which the destiny of our nation hangs...
...here is an important point, there will appear a small group of men who do incalculable evil by their unprincipled methods. A natural question, then, arises: what makes these few men so disproportionately effective? It is because the undergraduate standard of honesty is not universally positive enough to crush every attempt at deception. We quote from one of the many excellent opinions expressed in the 1910 Class Report: "The reason why men keep on taking books from libraries, or tearing pages out of books for other people's use as well as their own, . . . why men do not hesitate...